REBIN: Use any CLI app/script as a web service
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REBIN: Use any CLI app/script as a web service
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Re: REBIN: Use any CLI app/script as a web service
#2Cool!
Re: REBIN: Use any CLI app/script as a web service
#3This could be useful. (Though, to be honest, it faintly reminds me of a suped-up version of cgi-bin circa 1996 with a lot more dependencies.)
Anyone know if it can asynchronously handle long-running processes?
Re: REBIN: Use any CLI app/script as a web service
#4Yep, instances are asynchronous and can handle long running processes. As for cg-bin circa 1996, I appreciate your long memory! But nothing was RESTful back then. ;-)
Re: REBIN: Use any CLI app/script as a web service
#5This looks very useful. However, looking at it on github, I see there is no Windows version (yet). I am interested in this so I can access and run Windows-only processes from a sane Linux environment within my server cluster. Is there any interest or on going effort to extend Rebin to Windows?
Re: REBIN: Use any CLI app/script as a web service
#6This could be useful. (Though, to be honest, it faintly reminds me of a suped-up version of cgi-bin circa 1996 with a lot more dependencies.) Anyone know if it can asynchronously handle long-running processes?
I agree, it could use some practical examples. The announcement sounds very grandiloquent but it doesn't say much. The readme in the source is not much more explicit:
"You have already or have created a CLI based application or script. It takes input, it produces output. Now, how do you expose your work to the web so you can utilize via a web service. REBIN takes care of that!"
Great!
Re: REBIN: Use any CLI app/script as a web service
#7Yep, instances are asynchronous and can handle long running processes. As for cg-bin circa 1996, I appreciate your long memory! But nothing was RESTful back then. ;-)
Technically, everything was RESTful, we just didn't have a hipster name for it.
Re: REBIN: Use any CLI app/script as a web service
#8This is awesome. I'm going to start writing a scanner to find silly things exposed on the internet using this.
Re: REBIN: Use any CLI app/script as a web service
#9This looks very useful. However, looking at it on github, I see there is no Windows version (yet). I am interested in this so I can access and run Windows-only processes from a sane Linux environment within my server cluster. Is there any interest or on going effort to extend Rebin to Windows?
It's open source, so have your way with it.
Re: REBIN: Use any CLI app/script as a web service
#10This could be useful. (Though, to be honest, it faintly reminds me of a suped-up version of cgi-bin circa 1996 with a lot more dependencies.) Anyone know if it can asynchronously handle long-running processes?
The thing is, you can still do all this in Apache now. CGI still exists (in fact, it's the default way Perl's ran). So I'm really struggling to work out why I'd install their tool over Apache.
And I don't mean this negatively, I really do want to know what separates this product from existing webservers runing CGI, but there's no useful information on their website what-so-ever.
If any of the Rebin devs are reading this, are you able to elaborate on this tool a little more?